"eleaticus" wrote in message
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"unclefred" wrote in message
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Generally we go to the Vet's in a cat carrier. How the vet
deals
with us
is his/her problem. That's what they're paid fur. We neffer has
enny big
issues as our vets are friendly and only a little rude. Fred tries
to
find
vets that do *not* declaw.

Unfortunately, there are unscrupulous vets. When Sadie came down
suddenly
with eyes running (clear) I hauled her off to a vet open all night
some 40
miles away. They took her to the back in her travelling cage, and
came back
rather quickly.

I marvelled at not hearing her snarl and 'roar' and the gal just gave
me a
Mona Lisa, 60-70 bucks of meds, and a $90 fee for the visit. The meds
were
for infections.

The eye problem eventually went away. But returned and I took Sadie
off to
a very unlucky vet who had a squeeze net and the good sense to
conclude the
problem was allergic reaction and all I needed was some children's
Benadryl.

The $@*&()*&! at the overnight vet hadn't even gotten a look at Sadie
except
through the bars of the cage, and stuck me with a wild guess' worth of
meds
instead of something (well-)diagnosed.

--
eleaticus
ee-lee-AT-i-cus


Well, that's the thing. You want your cat to have the best treatment
possible. If I go on a Saturday, for example, the best-trained people at
my vet's office might not be working that day, and they might have
trouble giving Bear an injection he needs. I don't want to just step
back and say, not my problem. I want whatever apparatus it takes for my
cat to get all the treatment he needs. My problem isn't that they charge
me for things that they don't do -- but the fact that there just ARE
things they can't do. Before the squeeze cage, there were many, many
occasions when there was blood slung on all the walls of the room --
sometimes mine, sometime's the vet's. The cage means that they don't
give up in order to keep workers from being injured.

Julie